News
Name : Bobby Moreno
Class : 12 IPS 1 (06)
Today i want to explain about News Item
A. Definition
News Item is text which used to inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important. We often find it in a newspaper because the passage often tells the readers about great, important, interesting, tragic, entertaining or fresh incident or events that all people should know about it
B. Purpose
To inform readers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important
C. Generic Structure
Newsworthy event(s): recount the event in summary form.
Background event(s): elaborate what happened, to whom, in what circumstance
Sources: comments by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert on the event
Language Features:
1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline
2. Using adverbs : time, place and manner.
3. Uses of material processes to retell the event. (mental process is ….)
4. Use of projecting verbal process in sources stage
D. Language Features of News
News item text usually use:
1. Present perfect tense
2. Past tense
3. Future Tense
4. Direct and Indirect speech
5. Prepositions
6. Articles
There are linguistic features such as the following:
1. Brief information contained in the headline
2. Focus on the incident
3. Using action verbs
4. Using materials
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